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Quartz from
Inveran Mine, Spiddal, Connemara, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Inveran Mine, Spiddal, Connemara, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:336901
Long-form Identifier:1:3:336901:2
GUID (UUID V4):fb567c5b-dd2e-4904-865d-50d128c191bf
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.7km (0.4 miles) Minna, Spiddal, Connemara, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
3.3km (2.0 miles) Cloughmore North Quarry, Costelloe, Connemara, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
7.6km (4.7 miles) Kilroe West Mine, Spiddal, Connemara, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
7.8km (4.9 miles) Barraderry Quarry, Carrowroe South, Connemara, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
9.4km (5.8 miles) Lettermuckoo Mine, Kinvarra, Connemara, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
10.5km (6.5 miles) Pier Quarry, Carrowroe South, Connemara, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
11.6km (7.2 miles) Lettermuckoo Quarry (Tess Quarry; Lough Naskeha Quarry), Kinvarra, Connemara, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
12.2km (7.6 miles) Larkin's Quarry, Shannapheasteen, Costelloe, Connemara, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
15.6km (9.7 miles) Baile na Coile Quarry, Gorumna Island, Connemara, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
16.6km (10.3 miles) Lettermullan Quarry, Lettermullan Island, Connemara, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
style of granite emplacement in the Galway Batholith, western Ireland Q. CROWLEY & M. FEELY Geology Department...Department, University College, Galway, Ireland (Received 10 September 1996; accepted 11 March 1997) Abstract...Abstract – The late Caledonian Galway Batholith is cut by two major faults which divide it into three...field relations from part of the central block (Inveran sector) which are fundamental in establishing the...as a whole. Unequivocal field evidence from the Inveran sector indicates upward movement of early central
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in granitoids: examples from the Galway Granite, Connemara, Ireland S. Baxter and M. Feely Department...Department of Geology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Received November 18, 2000; revised version...silicic magmas during their genesis. The  400 Ma Galway Granite exhibits excellent evidence for magma mixing...thin-section=crystal scale (mixing textures). These textures ± quartz ocelli, rapakivi feldspars, acicular and mixed...this assemblage have been recorded throughout the Galway batholith indicating that magma mingling and mixing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotopic evidence from fluorite veins, Co. Galway, Ireland Received: 3 August 1995 / Accepted: 11 April...of the 400 Ma old Galway Granite batholith and is host to hydrothermal fluorite-quartz-calcite veins. A...4, Ireland M. Feely · C. O’Reilly Geology Department, University College Galway, Galway, Ireland geochemistry...suite of fluorite-bearing veins from the west of Ireland whose age we argue to be Triassic. The age and...suggested by O’Connor et al. (1993). The calc-alkaline Galway Granite was emplaced c. 400 Ma ago (Leggo et al
Journal (issue)
index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act...referred to as Glamorgan. The new counties and county boroughs brought in by the Lieutenancies Act of...entries. It includes valid mineral species (eg. quartz), series names (eg stilbite) and group names (eg...Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham
Book
GEOLOGY AND GENESIS OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN IRELAND ■■ — <.d ■ /A-- 'W .. 1 Edited by CJ. Andrew... ■ Geology and Genesis of Mineral Deposits in Ireland The front cover photograph shows a general view...from the 1 : 1.000,000 map Mineral Deposits of Ireland, 1984. by M. L. Browne and C. G. R. Reid, produced... Geology and Genesis of Mineral Deposits in Ireland Edited by C. J. Andrew, R. W. A. Crowe, S. Finlay...be ordered from: GGMDI c/o Geological Survey of Ireland Beggars Bush Haddington Rd. Dublin 4 Phone: 609511
Journal (volume)
Journal of the Topographic Mineralogy of Britain and Ireland EDITOR David I. Green 61 Nowell Lane, Leeds, West...Journal Editor. ISSN 0263 7839 FRONT COVER: A pink quartz crystal, 2.5 mm in length, on specular hematite...included by an unknown black sulphide, from Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire. Don Edwards specimen and painting...2019 EDITORIAL 2 5 PAPERS Enargite from Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire Steve A. Rust 6 10 Manganite...associated minerals from Lettermuckoo Quarry, Connemara, Co. Galway Stephen Moreton and Robert Lawson 38 42
Book
LOCALITIES IN THE United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. BY K TOWNSHEND M. HALL, F.G.S. LONDON : EDWARD...of some of the principal localities in the same county, was given by Messrs . Greg and Lettsom in their...locality by some independent authority, such as maps, county directories, local guide books, &c. The geological...Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland, by ROBERT P. GREG, F.G.S., and WILLIAM G. LETTSOM...of Mineral Substances hitherto dis covered in Ireland, by Sir CHARLES L. GIESECKE, F.G.S. 1832. A Catalogue
Book
location of gemstones in the United Kingdom and Ireland to be published for a hundred years. Based on many...their geographical England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland occurrence. detail, in separate chapters, and specific...M. A. Cunningham, of the Geological Survey of Ireland; W. F.-Davidson, of Penrith; J. N. M. Firth; L...Geological Sciences, Leeds; Miss M. C. Hill, County Archivist, Salop County Council; P. G. Hines; Robert Hogg,...James, Curator, Shrewsbury Museum; D. O. Jones, County Librarian, Anglesey; K. A. Jones, of Queen’s University
Journal (volume)
Magnetic Pyrites at Tiernakill,near Maum, county of Galway. By the Rev. Samuel Haughton, F. R. S., President...associated Minerals from Ross Hill, near Maum , county of Galway. By James Apjohn, M. D., Professor of Chemistry...the Drift Gravel of Ireland, On the Wolfhill and Modubeagh Coal-fields, Queen's County. By George M'Dowell...District extending from Dungarvan to Annestown, county of Waterford. By W. B. Brownrigg, S.T. C.D., and...Arrangement of the simple Minerals hitherto found in Ireland. By Aquilla Smith, M. D., M. R. I. A., The Localities
Report (issue)
containing approximately 50 per cent subar:igular quartz grains and 50 per cent angular grains of comminuted...and contains approximately 50 per cent angular quartz grains and 50 per cent of comminuted shell debris...consists of approximately 70 per cent subangular quartz grains and 30 per cent comminuted shell debris...cent of comminuted shell debris and subordinate quartz and feldspar grains. The area of the belt of dunes...samples consists of up to 80 per cent subangular quartz and felspar grains. Comminuted shell debris forms
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
-Loch Kernsary is situated to the northeast of Inveran, at the foot of Loch Maree, into which it drains...through the little loch Poll Uidhe a' Chro' and the Inveran river. There was no boat passage into Poll Uidhe...mineral particles with a mean diameter of 0-15 mm. Quartz is the principal mineral species, but small grains...much more pronounced in the fine washings. Besides quartz and felspar, white and brown mica, hornblende,...Gairloch. The prominent members of this series are quartz-schists, mica-schists, graphitic schists, limestones
Report (volume)
in length. Boulders of hornblendic rock and of quartz are also occasionally present t as, for instance...silicified semi-cylinder of wood glittoring with quartz crystals. The diameter of the cylinder is about...level, the ice had retreated at least as far as Inveran, £01· tl1e raised beach, though mostly forming...waters, at a time when the ice-foot lay between Inveran and Rheantaoir. SUTHERLAND . l\'Iessrs. Read and...Lodge a prominent knoll, consisting of white vein quartz much crusl1ed and broken, rises out of the surrounding
Book
MANUAL w OF THE MINERALOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. BY ROBERT PHILIPS GREG, F.G.S. , AND WILLIAM...work to place the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland on that footing to which scientifically and economically...M Playok, in topaz from the Mourne Mountains, Ireland ), almost every known British form being in fact...Portlock's Geological Report and Survey of the N.E. of Ireland ( 1843 ). Catalogue of the British Museum . Sale...XI. Silex and Silicates. Genus 1. SILICA, 43. Quartz, &c. 44. Opal, &c. 77. Mesolite, &c. 78. Faröelite
Report (chapter)
altered picrite, basic and intermediate gneiss, and quartz. Rounded to well-rounded picritic clasts predominate...these sandstones contain pebbles of gneiss and quartz (but no quartzite) up to a centimetre across. They...segregations of quartz, feldspar, and calcite that appear to fill cavities of unknown origin. Quartz and feldspar...calcite, which formed last, fills the centre. The quartz is colourless and forms prisms up to a centimetre...underlying two of the muddy sandstone beds contains quartz pebbles up to a centimetre; matrix-supported pebbles
Report (volume)
largest grains, up to 2 mm in size, are mainly quartz with angular or jagged shapes like those found...planed off the underlying bed forms and deposited quartz pebbles up to a centimetre. Almost immediately...abundant vesicular, glassy lapilli. Some of the larger quartz grains in the matrix are very angular and contain...of basement rocks near Stoer A Scourian mode Quartz Plagioclase K-feldspar Biotite Pyroxene Hornblende...fades Ct2 in the Clachtoll Formation at Stoer Quartz Plagioclase K-feldspar Muscovite Biotite Chlorite
 
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